Washing compound



20 the washing compound and UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANNIE E. RHOADS, OF BARABOO, WISCONSIN,

WASHING COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,452, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed August 2, 1883. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANNIE E. RHOADS, of Baraboo, in the county of Sank and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Washing Compound, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of. my invention is to provide a new and improved compound for washing clothes and removing the dirt and spots from floors, ceilings, wood-work, carpets, 8m.

IThe compound consists of the following ingredients combined in the following proportions: sal-soda, thirteen ounces; sa ltpgter, two ouncesi gui ifpangphor, one ounee. Each of the aboi mentioned ingredients is crushed separately and then thoroughly mixed.

The clothes are soaked in warm water. An eight-gallon wash-boiler is filled about twothirds full .of water, and one tablespoonful of one-quarter of a pound of hard soap or a cupful of soft soap is mixed with the water. When the water 'in the boiler becomes too hot to hold the hand in, the clothes are placed in the water, which is brought to boilvery quickly. The clothes are drained thoroughly, wrung dry, and put in blue water. Colored garments should not be boiled.

This compound can also be used for cleaning ceilings and floors and removing greasespots from clothing, carpets, 8m.

Having thus fully described my invention, I 

